sur, big
June 27th, 2010
I never cease to be amazed by Big Sur. We try and go at least once a year and every time I am in awe. Word fail.
I never cease to be amazed by Big Sur. We try and go at least once a year and every time I am in awe. Word fail.
image: egon schiele is probably my favorite aritst. once upon a time I was lucky enough to have a business trip that required a stop over in amsterdam and lucky enough that the van gogh museum had a schiele exhibit at the exact same time. they even had performance artists in nude painted body suits. which reminds me a saw photographs once that were reinterpretations of his paintings. i should find those again. i have been itching to go to europe again.
Dust in space taken by Hubble! I have been taking a solar astronomy class and it is making think I want to toss all this photo business to the side and become an astronomer. But I assume it is an even more competitive field and I would need more math. Jason has always downloaded pictures from there and I know Lidias mom works for JPL- but all of a sudden I am INTO it. So yeah, I want to be a astronomer when I grow up. But maybe I would settle doing photo retouching on space pictures, because they actually totally do retouch them. From the Hubble Astronomy Picture of the Day.
For my design final we had to do a bunch of design elements in a portfolio and at the end we had to have our “inspiration” section. I had some color photograhphers, some black and white photographers, egon schiele, some music portraits and this picture. I lovelovelove these magazine layouts. So much in fact the the never done website was put on hold while I completley refigure out presentation. For reals. Also, I totally want to do a day trip to the Cowgirl Creamery and go to Hog Island.
I just finished the (mostly) picture book Instamatic Karma by May Pang- photographs during the 18 months he was split with Yoko, a time he later refers to as his “Lost Weekend”. I am not really a huge Beatles fan, but I have always had a fascination with John Lennon, and despite what everyone says I think Yoko is rad. The book is nothing exciting or revelationary, but mostly an interesting document into a specific time period in someones life. The photos are very 70′s in style and mostly snapshots, in which she also documented the signing of the dissolution of the Beatles.
Daily Mail has excertps of text and photos
photo: Ernst Holtzer: Persian gymnasts. scan from the dark and light library book that also had the Ron Mesaros picture. And since I can’t seem to get the inspiration categories working, follow the dots . . . . . .
joni mitchell by annie leibovitz
One of the recent library picks was Annie Leibovitz Women (I HAVE been on a Leibovitz kick lately). Though I had seen this at least 1/2 a dozen times over the past 10 years, I enjoyed it much more this time around. This particular photo of Joni Mitchell I could.not.get.enough.of. I want it BIG. On my wall. It is actually much larger than this. Horizontal with all sorts of foliage. But the little old scanner could not handle the big ol’ library book.
Also- I still can’t seem to get the categories working right :\
I go to the library often. Partially because there is a BEAUTIFUL one right down the street from my work, partially because I like to read/look at photo and art books more than I can actually afford to buy them. Since posting my own photos everyday can get repetitive, I will share others with you. I saw this one in a books name I don’t remember, but I think it was at least 20 years old and specific to dark and light. It caught my eye. More than the dog, or the look on her face even. I just couldn’t stop looking. That and either it was taken in Topanga Canyon or he is from/near there, which is near to my childhood. I couldn’t find much online, but the photographers name is Ron Mesaros.
I want to be this woman when I am 96. She has lived above Carnegie Hall for over 60 years and is now fighting eviction.
The “Duchess of Carnegie” has also been called “Portrait Photographer to the Stars”.
She still uses an 8×10 camera and has a myspace.
I was really taken with the photos Brad Pitt took of Angelina Jolie and their family for W Magazine a few months back- not so much because of the subjects, but because of the way he executed it. He used an old camera and film they no longer made. He took a zillion shots and I think W magazine took a nice risk with it. There used to be a ton of photos on their site, but it looks like not so much anymore. I wish I would have bought the issue when it was out. But this one is my favorite.
I need to develop some film.
I love me some puppies. And I love me some Obama. The picture on the left is part of the book “A Rare Breed of Love” which chronicles the story of the poodle Baby who was rescued from a puppy mill.
The photo shows Obama with “Baby,” a three-legged dog that lost its fourth limb following years of mistreatment at a California puppy mill. The toy poodle spent much of its life locked in a small wire cage. The breeders cut out Baby’s vocal chords so that they would not have to hear her cries. In cages next to her, other dogs literally went insane, spinning repetitively with blank stares. Still others were gravely ill, maimed and had filthy, matted coats. A number was tattooed on the inside of Baby’s ear, marking her as just one of many dogs at the mill.
And the New Yorker cover is just silly. I saw it this weekend and have not been able to get it out of my head.
images: via Obama pics daily & The New Yorker
I saw this in the last (?) issue of W Magazine and fell in love. By artist Elizabeth Peyton.